Al-ahwaz? British Arabism

[RedWine]

British Arabism
An in-depth understanding of the British sponsorship of Arab separatism in Iran requires an understanding of British Arabism in its entirety. Francis Fukuyama, in his description of the American Arabists, opines that they are "... a sociological phenomenon ... Arabists not only take on the cause of the Arabs, but also the Arabs' tendency for self-delusion".

That tendency for self-delusion is vividly expressed by the main tenets of Arab nationalism, which views all non-Arab Muslim peoples as subsidiary to the Arab language and culture. Moreover, Robert Kaplan observes that psychologically the English-speaking Arabist is "obsessed with the Arabs ... a defining Arabist trait". This psychological process is subsumed under British commercial and political interests. This is vividly exemplified in the case of T E Lawrence, as defined by Kaplan (1993): "Lawrence ... among Arabs in the desert ... became pro-Arab; in Whitehall he was pro-Empire."

British Arabism can trace its origins to geopolitical imperialism, namely the need to project political, economic, and if necessary, military power into Persia. The first official Arabists are Sir Charles Lyall (1845-1920) and William Muit, both civil servants of the British East India Company.

Lyall published works on Arabic literature, including pre-Islamic odes, while Muit wrote extensively about the Arab caliphate. It is difficult to ascertain why they were so keenly interested specifically in Arabic, as Arabic, along with Persian and Sanskrit, had been banned from India's educational system since the 1830s. Another early Arabist was a Cambridge professor, E H Palmer, whose knowledge of Arabic was useful in his role as a secret agent in Egypt, where he died in action in August 1882.

It was in the Arab Bureau of Cairo, however, where British Arabism was formally implemented as a tool for the advancement of British geopolitical and economic interests. The Arab Bureau was set up on February 4, 1916. It was from here that the British coordinated their activities with the local Arab sheikhs of the Persian Gulf.

Their main mission by World War I was to foster an Arab rebellion by way of the invention of Arab nationalism, a domain viewed as a "product" by the British Foreign Office and the Arab Bureau. The primary objective was to accomplish the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Arab nationalism, since the conclusion of World War I, has been encouraged to focus itself against Iran, an ideological proclivity that was taken to its logical extremes by the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein.

Today, the Arab Bureau survives in the form of various innocuous-sounding organizations, namely the Arab-British Center, the CAABU (Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding), the Arab-British Charitable Trust, the Labor Middle East Council, the Anglo-Arab Association and (until 1979) MECAS (Middle East Center for Arab Studies).

While British Arabism has penetrated many sectors of British national life, it is particularly influential in the intelligence, academic and media fields. It is interesting to note that British academic Arabists do not focus on the entire Arab world, which includes Egypt and Libya. Instead, the British academic Arabists have been almost exclusively preoccupied with the eastern Arab world, which is contiguous to Iran (historical Persia) and the Persian Gulf, areas rich in fossil fuels and hence of prime importance to British economic and commercial interests.

[RedWine]

Pls watch this :

Al-ahvaz

And read this :

http://www.al-ahwaz.com/Ahwaz.htm

[RedWine]

Vaghean khejalat dareh !!! chizi keh barayeh man ajibeh ineh keh chera in page ta beh hal beh dasteh bacheh irunia hack nashodeh ya dolateh iran filter nakardeh in safaro !? akheh koodoom divoonei in khial ro kardeh keh ma Khoozestan ro midim beh araba !?

[ProudPersian]

OK im warning you, this post contains swearing. I tried, I honestly did, but could not stop myself from exploding with outrage.

First of all who in the ****ing hell do these Arabists think they are. Khuzestan has had ancient Iranian civilization heritage since at least 5000BC. From Elam to the Hakhamanishi. Kuroush ruled over Anshan and called himself King of Anshan before he was king of the entire empire. No way we are gonna give up this land to a bunch of desert nomads who wandered into our territory. When you move to another country, you abide by their laws.

What's even more disappointing is the lack of support by Iranians against these actions. I mean, that stupid son of a bitch Ahmadinejad, still supports Arabism in Palestine. DOnt you get the picture, Arabs dont care about Iran, why do we try so hard to support them. The only people we need to support are Iranians.

Also dont look to the west for help. Like the article states the British, as well as the Americans, support these mother****ers, because of purely political reasons.

THEY DONT WANT IRAN UNITED. THEY WANT IRAN DIVIDED AMONGST ITS GROUPS INTO SMALL PITIFUL NATIONS.

Bottom line Iranians need to come together and support Iranians.

Dont expect the British to be your allies
Dont expect the Arabs to be your allies
Dont expect other Muslims to be your allies
Dont expect the Americans to be your allies
Dont expect the mullahs in our own gov't to be your allies. They support Arabization of Iran!

[Cop]

iran yeki az keshvarhaye kamie tooye jahan ke nejadhaye mokhtalefesh daroonesh zendegi mikonan! :) va hamontor ke midonid yeki az sade tarin ravash bara foroopashie yek hokoomat ine ke az dakhel eghteshash be vojood biaran va behtarin rahesh iinnne ke jaryane nejado arabo kurdo turk bodan in harfa ro vasat ovordan ke alan daran be arabaye ahvaz pool midan ke in eghteshashato be vojood biaran :)

[RedWine]

iran yeki az keshvarhaye kamie tooye jahan ke nejadhaye mokhtalefesh daroonesh zendegi mikonan! :) va hamontor ke midonid yeki az sade tarin ravash bara foroopashie yek hokoomat ine ke az dakhel eghteshash be vojood biaran va behtarin rahesh iinnne ke jaryane nejado arabo kurdo turk bodan in harfa ro vasat ovordan ke alan daran be arabaye ahvaz pool midan ke in eghteshashato be vojood biaran :)

Mammad man khialam rahateh chon ina nemitoonam hich koodoomeshoon az Iran joda beshan chon nah ghodrati bahashoon hast va nah USA ejazeh mideh keh England injaha karesho bekoneh va jodaei bendazeh,montaha ina khodeshoon ro maskhareh mikonan !

Porsidam,goftan ina az Kuwait va Arabia Saudi charge mishan :( . injash badeh va nemidoonam una cheh soodi mibaran az in kara !

[ProudPersian]

Mammad man khialam rahateh chon ina nemitoonam hich koodoomeshoon az Iran joda beshan chon nah ghodrati bahashoon hast va nah USA ejazeh mideh keh England injaha karesho bekoneh va jodaei bendazeh,montaha ina khodeshoon ro maskhareh mikonan !


What are you talking about, the state department supports these Ahwazi Arabs

[DariushM]

What are you talking about, the state department supports these Ahwazi Arabs
man ham intory motavaje shodam
chon u.s. ke ahamiati nemideh ke be inha
valy khob doost nadare united beshan pas vase hamin ahvaz ro support mikone ke joda beshan ta iran zaeef tar beshe

[RedWine]

What are you talking about, the state department supports these Ahwazi Arabs

Az kheilia support mikonan ! az Mongolha dar barabareh China, az Keshmiriha dar barabareh India & Pakistan.az Kordha dar barabareh Iran Syria Turkey and Iraq. az Mokhalefineh Hugo Chavez dar Venezuela . az mokhalefineh Fidel Castro dar Cuba . va keshvarhayeh digeh mesleh Zimbawe,Angola,Sudan,Azerbaijan,Guatemala,El Salvador va...

Montaha in support joori hast keh dekhalateh USA ro neshoon nemideh ta kheili jaha !

Ahwazi arabs paygaheh mardomi nadaran chon islamic republic unja joori amal mikoneh keh,unha nemitoonan ba ham bashan beh toreh kamel va USA barash oil bedoone dardesar mohem hast ! khodesho zamani ghati mikoneh keh bebineh dar khatar hast . beh in asooniha ham nist !

[RedWine]

In ham axe rahbareh al ahwazi ha dar Canada !

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[RedWine]

After killing almost a million people in trying to annex Khuzestan during the Iran-Iraq war, mutant remnants of Sheikh Khaz'al demagoguery are scurrying around trying to disintegrate Iran once again. Now we have the Canadian Foreign Minister Pierre Stewart Pettigrew meeting with the leaders of the "Al-Ahwaz" grouplet , officially endorsing their position.

This is what happens when thousands of competent conscientious technocrats from all parts, minorities, and political affiliations are banned from running for offices in Iran, and replaced instead by a posse of religious retrogrades who refuse the sacraments of free-thinking, and who have absolutely no clue how to run a country based on contemporary standards.

I have great respect for people like Majlis Speaker Haddad Adel. He was my literature teacher in high school, and a very good one. But it vexes me to see that the non-plebiscitary vision of the likes of him puts other things higher in priority than Iran itself.

It is from the vacuum created by Iran's dogmatic policies that ill wishers get the chance to bring harm to Iran-zameen, now in the form of a newly propped up factitious secessionist clangor in Khuzestan. The revisionists are hard at work to change our history and to put an end to Iran as we know it.

Take for instance a look at Lessons of Modern War- Volume II: The Iran-Iraq War, (online version), a book coauthored with Abraham R. Wagner, which is regarded as an academic source of reference on the Iran-Iraq war and "the question of Khuzestan". Allow me to quote some passages:

1. "The Persianization of Khuzistan had also had considerable success". p3
2. "Iran had had half a century to 'Persianize' the area and a strong incentive to do so". p2

So Khuzestan "was Persianized". I suppose these sources forget that the Sassanid capital Ctesiphon was inside today's Iraq, and that the Arabs invaded Iran, not the other way around. Jundishapur was in Khuzestan, not in Hijaz (the real Arabistan).

3. "When the Treaty of Lausanne establish[ed] Iraq as a state in 1923, it paid no attention to the issue of 'Arabistan' at all. The entire area was assumed to be part of Persia". p2

"Was assumed". That's factualizing that "Arabistan" is actually a real entity.

4. "Something approach[ing] a separate "Arabistan" did exist in southwest Iran between roughly 1690 and 1923". p2

Well, something approaching Iran exists today in Khuzestan. And if you wish to take the road of a historical argument, then we can talk about the Elamites, who ruled Khuzestan for thousands of years, were a non-semitic people, and who were precursors to the Persian Empire.

It's a good thing that even Saddam wasn't able to destroy that magnificent Ziggurat near Susa, where Ashurbanipal bitterly wrote:

"Susa, the great holy city, abode of their Gods, seat of their mysteries, I conquered. I entered its palaces, I opened their treasuries where silver and gold, goods and wealth were amassed... I destroyed the ziggurat of Susa. I smashed its shining copper horns. I reduced the temples of Elam to naught; their gods and goddesses I scattered to the winds. The tombs of their ancient and recent kings I devastated, I exposed to the sun, and I carried away their bones toward the land of Ashur. I devastated the provinces of Elam and on their lands I sowed salt."(photo)

Note the key word "their". Susa was never part of any other civilization to begin with. It belonged to Iran.

5. "In 1924, [Reza Khan] put down all Arab resistance in "Arabistan" and changed the name to Khuzistan". p2

"Changed the name", as if he invented it. I wonder then what the 8th century historian Ibn Muqaffa means when he says:

"The Iranian languages are Fahlavi, Dari, Khuzi, Farsi, and Seryani,... where Khuzi is the unofficial language of the royalty".

"Khuzi". And where did this royalty live? Susa, smack in the middle of Khuzestan.

6. "On November 30, 1971 -- the day before the British left the Gulf ñ the Shah seized three strategic islands in the lower Gulf which were owned by the UAE. This seizure led Iraq to sever diplomatic relations with Iran". p7

7. "For an excellent description of the issues involved, and their history, see Daniel Pipes: A Border Adrift: Origins of... "

How absurd a policy Iran must have that even pro-Israeli authors are supporting Arab causes against Iran.

This is why Iran needs Israel as a friend. As long as this brainless Tel Aviv-Tehran enmity exists, the likes of Daniel Pipes will be presented as academic references for Iran. I have never understood Iran's policy of supporting "fellow muslim Arab brothers" at the cost of being confronted by Israel and the US, and then being stabbed in the back by the same Arabs. How asinine is that?

8. "It is important to note that the fact Iraq invaded Iran is not prima facie evidence of aggressive intent or guilt for the war. The creation of a contingency capability to invade Iran cannot, under the circumstances, be regarded as a premeditated effort to either invade or dominate Iran". p16

Ah yes, exculpation of Iraq to lend legitimacy to the sinister "Al-Ahwaz" dagger. After tens of thousands of Iranian casualties from Iraq's Chemical weapons, "no guilt"? Sweet.

[RedWine]

But no, lobotomizing the hoi polloi is the profession of these pundit revisionists. But then again, who instigates them?

Nevertheless the damage has been done. Amnesty is now making a big fuss about it and the presstitutes are jumping at this new opportunity to spread outrageous mendacities (example link). Shutting down Al-Jazeera's branch in Iran won't stop them from disseminating new lies about "80 years of Iranian occupation in Al-Ahwaz" either. After all, millions are being spent just to fabricate these lies.

Maybe it's time the beard-wielding political cronyist dolts in Iran woke up and realized that Iran's integrity is in danger as a result of their fatuous views. Maybe instead of submitting idiotic proposals such as a new national dress code, they will start tending to de-centralization projects so that oil-rich but poverty-stricken regions like Khuzestan wont become grounds for the latest ploy of Iran's enemies.

Is it not time to accept Iran's interests on par with "Islam"? When will we see a stop to the brain drain exodus of Iran's best talents? When will we see a stop to the oligarchic screening and filtering of millions who aspire to serve Iran? Is it then an accident that we see literally hundreds of Iranians serving as Chairs, Directors, Deans, and CEOs of companies outside Iran instead of serving their own country? I think not.

May God save me when I go back to Iran this summer.

[RedWine]

The British Ahwazi Friendship Society was set up to promote solidarity and understanding between Europe and the Ahwazi Arab people.

Working with civil society organisations, the BAFS lobbies the British parliament, the European Union and the United Nations to bring attention to the plight of the Ahwazis. We work in partnership with democratic secularist Ahwazi groups, including the Ahwaz Studies Centre, the Ahwaz Human Rights Group and the Democratic Solidarity Party of Al-Ahwaz.

We also aim to bring education and skills to the Ahwazi diaspora, particularly in the UK, which is home to 3,000 Ahwazi Arabs. Our main focus is promoting an independent Ahwazi media by channelling grants to the Al-Ahwaz satellite television station and training Ahwazis in broadcast and print journalism.

We do not support separatism and oppose any invasion of Iran by foreign forces.

We condemn all forms of terrorism and have no links to any armed group.

We believe that through national non-violent civil disobedience supported by global solidarity, the people of Ahwaz and the rest of Iran can build a democratic and tolerant Iran where no-one is subject to persecution, racism or oppression on the grounds of race, religion, language or gender.

We uphold the notion of Iran as a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural country and believe that decentralisation, federalism and regional autonomy is essential to democracy in Iran.

[donsaeid]

Irane Yekparche va Motahed

Hatta yek centimetresho be hich ahadonnasi nemidim

[mike435]

lovly arabs oh man how good are they

the world wasnt enogh for theme now they want iran

the cancer is spreadign

[donsaeid]

dont call them cancer! by calling them cancer you justefy them calling jews cancer!!!

[mike435]

dont call them cancer! by calling them cancer you justefy them calling jews cancer!!!

ok fine
i didnt mean the whole arab population i ment arab extremisim

apologise if affended anyone

but f*&* this group if for a second they think iran will be anything less than a united nation or they can break it

also look at the iorny islamic republic of irans appisement of arab extremisim did not work lol

maybe the world will stop apeasing extremisim under the banner of political correcteness and multicaultrual relativisom
right now in all the countries of europe that let muslim refugees in there the extrimist of the groups are spiting in the face of europeans

france and riots, britian and homegrown muslim extremisom , and now boosh to iran dare miad.

a beutiful world is on the horizon

[RedWine]

دولت هلند در اقدام عجيبى يكى از متهمان اصلى بمب گذاري*هاى اهواز كه تاكنون منجر به شهادت و مجروح شدن ده*ها تن از شهروندان خوزستانى شده را مورد حمايت خود قرار داده است.

به گزارش خبرنگار ,بازتاب,، فالح عبدالله المنصوري، رئيس گروه تروريستى موسوم سازمان آزاديبخش الاهواز که خواهان جدايى خوزستان از ايران و مظنون به دست داشتن در بمب*گذاري*هاى اهواز است، هنگام عزيمت به سوريه توسط مقامات سورى دستگير شده و گفته مي*شود که مقامات سورى او را به ايران تحويل داده*اند.

اما از آنجا که المنصورى پناهندگى سياسى از کشور هلند دارد، دولت هلند و رسانه*هاى خبرى و همچنين سازمان عفو بين*الملل به بهانه نقض حقوق بشر در دستگيرى وي، جو تبليغاتى شديدى را عليه ايران سازماندهى کرده*اند.

ناگفته نماند که چندى پيش المنصورى به خاطر فعاليت*هاى به اصطلاح حقوق بشري*اش نشان ,اورنج, را از ملکه هلند دريافت نمود.
اين که حمايت ها از ,المنصورى, در حالى صورت مي*گيرد که وى تبعه ايران نيز محسوب مي*شود و با گذرنامه ايرانى به سوريه سفر کرده است.

همچنين او به عنوان يک جدايي*طلب، که در راس گروه جدايى طلب آزاديبخش الاهواز قرار دارد، اعتقادى به تماميت ارضى ايران ندارد و عليرغم ادعاهايش در تلاش براى ارتقاى حقوق بشر، بمب*گذاري*هاى اهواز را محکوم نکرده و گفته مي*شود که وى نقشى کليدى در رهبرى اين بمب*گذاري*ها داشته است.

[RedWine]

سه نفر در استان خوزستان ايران به جرم شرکت داشتن در بمبگذاريهای ماههای اخير در شهر اهواز به دار آويخته شده اند و بدين ترتيب شمار کسانی که تاکنون در ارتباط با اين بمبگذاريها با مجازات مرگ روبرو شده اند به پنج نفر رسيد.
دادگستری استان خوزستان اعلام کرده که اين سه نفر روز سه شنبه (نوزدهم دسامبر) اعدام شده و جرمشان محاربه و اقدام عليه امنيت کشور از طريق بمبگذاری در بانک سامان و فرمانداری اهواز بوده است.

حکم اعدام اين سه تن چهل روز پس از آن اجرا شد که دادستان کل خوزستان از تأييد حکم اعدام ده نفر از متهمان بمبگذاريهای اهواز خبر داد، اعلام اين خبر در فردای آن روز انفجار بمبی صوتی را در اهواز در پی داشت که تلفات جانی برجای نگذاشت.

گروه ديدبان حقوق بشر نيز از حکومت ايران خواست حکم اعدام اين ده نفر را اجرا نکند.

اوائل ماه مارس گذشته نيز دو تن ديگر از افرادی که در ارتباط با بمبگذاری در اهواز محکوم شده بودند اعدام شدند.

عمادالدين باقی، رئيس انجمن دفاع از حقوق زندانيان شش ماه پيش طی نامه ای به رئيس قوه قضاييه و وزير اطلاعات نوشته بود که بر اساس شهادت افراد قابل اعتماد، برخی از محکومان پرونده های بمبگذاری در اهواز ارتباط با هيچ انفجاری ندارند.

به نوشته آقای باقی، برخی از محکومان در سنين هيجده تا بيست سالگی قرار دارند، دارای تحصيلات ابتدايی و شغل کارگری اند که تعدادی از آنها توسط فردی اغوا شده *اند که با تحويل بمبهای صوتی و وسوسه و تحريک و تشويق خواستار اقدام به انفجار توسط آنها شده است و تعدادی ديگر هم اساساً در جريان موضوع نبوده اند و پس از دريافت مواد منفجره از انجام عمل منصرف شده و مواد را در جای ديگری رها يا پنهان کرده *اند.

عمادالدين باقی در آن زمان نوشته بود: "فردی که نه نفر عليه وی اعتراف کرده اند و عامل اغوا و تحويل بمبها بوده اکنون آشکارا در شهر اهواز زندگی و تردد دارد اما فريب خوردگان او محکوم به اعدام شده *اند".

هنوز مشخص نيست که آيا فردی که آقای باقی شش ماه پيش او را عامل اصلی بمبگذاری در اهواز دانسته و از زندگی آزادانه او در اين شهر خبر داده بود بازداشت شده و تحت پيگرد قرار گرفته است يا نه.

[RedWine]

وكيل مدافع يكى از متهمان پرونده بمب*‏گذاري*‏هاى اخير اهواز، از اعتراض خود نسبت به محكوميت 10 سال حبس موكلش به شعبه تشخيص ديوان عالى كشور خبر داد.

سعيد نيسي، وكيل مدافع مسلم باوى در گفت*‏وگو با خبرنگار "ايلنا"، با اعلام اين مطلب، گفت: موكلم پيش از اين از سوى دادگاه انقلاب اهواز به تحمل 10 سال حبس محكوم شده بود كه شعبه 13 دادگاه تجديدنظر استان خوزستان نيز اين محكوميت را تأييد كرد. به دنبال تأييد اين حكم، در لايحه*‏اى به شعبه تشخيص ديوان عالى كشور نسبت به محكوميت موكلم اعتراض كردم كه اميدوارم مورد توجه قضات شعبه تشخيص قرار گيرد.
وى افزود: موكلم در زمان ارتكاب جرم، 17 سال بيشتر نداشت و فاقد هرگونه سابقه كيفرى است، بنابراين حق اين بود كه دادگاه بدوى اشد مجازات را براى وى در نظر نگيرد كه متأسفانه دادگاه تجديدنظر هم بدون اينكه دادگاهى برگزار كند، محكوميت 10 ساله وى را تأييد كرد و حتى قبل از اينكه حكم به ما ابلاغ شود، محكوميت 10 سال حبس وى در تبعيد اجرا و باوى به زندان خرم*‏آباد منتقل شد.
وكيل مدافع باوي، اتهامات موكلش را شركت در حمل، نگهدارى و اختفاى مواد منفجره عنوان كرد و گفت: موكلم پيش از اين از سوى شعبه اول دادگاه انقلاب اهواز به تحمل 11 سال حبس محكوم شده بود كه ما نسبت به اين امر اعتراض كرديم و پرونده به دادگاه تجديدنظر استان خوزستان ارجاع شد. اين دادگاه نيز اعتراض ما را مبنى بر اينكه موكلانمان در زمان ارتكاب جرم داراى 17 سال سن بوده و بايد به اتهامات وى در دادگاه اطفال رسيدگى شود، پذيرفت و پرونده را به شعبه 103 دادگاه جزايى اهواز كه قاضى آن داراى مجوز رسيدگى به جرايم اطفال است، ارجاع داد. اين شعبه نيز پس از رسيدگى به پرونده باوي، وى را به تحمل 10 سال حبس محكوم كرد كه اين حكم مورد تأييد دادگاه تجديدنظر نيز قرار گرفته است.

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با اعدام چهار تن ديگر از افرادی که در ارتباط با بمبگذاريهای مرکز استان خوزستان ايران مجرم شناخته شده اند، تعداد افرادی که در ارتباط با نا آرامی قومی در مناطق عرب نشين جنوب غرب ايران به دار آويخته شده اند به نه نفر رسيد.
آن گونه که مراجع قضائی ايران اعلام کرده اند دست کم يک نفر ديگر نيز در انتظار اجرای حکم اعدام خود در ارتباط با بمبگذاريهای اهواز به سر می برد.

بمبگذاريهای اهواز که عمدتاً در مناطق تجاری اين شهر رخ داد، چند ماه پس از نا آراميهای قومی بهار 2005 در استان خوزستان ايران رخ داد و طی آن دهها نفر کشته و مجروح شدند.

حکومت ايران ريشه نا آرامی قومی در خوزستان و بمبگذاری در مرکز اين استان را در خارج از کشور می داند و با همکاری دولت سوريه، چند تن از فعالان عرب خوزستانی که در خارج از ايران زندگی می کردند بازداشت و به ايران مسترد شده اند.

شماری نيز در داخل ايران بازداشت شده اند که تعدادی از آنان در سه نوبت اعدام شده اند.

اما عمادالدين باقی، رئيس انجمن دفاع از حقوق زندانيان می گويد که بر اساس شهادت افراد قابل اعتماد، برخی از محکومان پرونده های بمبگذاری در اهواز ارتباط با هيچ انفجاری ندارند.

بنابر نامه ای که او ماهها پيش به رئيس قوه قضائيه و وزير اطلاعات ايران نوشته، برخی از محکومان در سنين هيجده تا بيست سالگی قرار دارند، دارای تحصيلات ابتدايی و شغل کارگری اند که تعدادی از آنها توسط فردی اغوا شده *اند که با تحويل بمبهای صوتی و وسوسه و تحريک و تشويق خواستار اقدام به انفجار توسط آنها شده است و تعدادی ديگر هم اساساً در جريان موضوع نبوده اند و پس از دريافت مواد منفجره از انجام عمل منصرف شده و مواد را در جای ديگری رها يا پنهان کرده *اند.

عمادالدين باقی نوشته: "فردی که نه نفر عليه وی اعتراف کرده اند و عامل اغوا و تحويل بمبها بوده اکنون آشکارا در شهر اهواز زندگی و تردد دارد اما فريب خوردگان او محکوم به اعدام شده *اند".

هنوز مشخص نيست که آيا فردی که آقای باقی شش ماه پيش او را عامل اصلی بمبگذاری در اهواز دانسته و از زندگی آزادانه او در اين شهر خبر داده بود بازداشت شده و تحت پيگرد قرار گرفته است يا نه.

گروه ديدبان حقوق بشر نيز از حکومت ايران خواسته حکم اعدام محکومان پرونده بمبگذاری در اهواز را اجرا نکند.

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Iran has publicly hanged four men convicted of taking part in deadly bombings in the south-western city of Ahwaz last year.
The blasts at a bank and the office of the governor killed eight people and injured at least 45 others.

Iran originally blamed British troops based just over the border in Iraq.

Ahwaz, in Khuzestan province, is home to a large community of ethnic minority Arabs and has simmered with anti-government tension since 2005.

The executions were carried out at the city's jail in front of the victims' families.

Last month Iran said it had hanged three people convicted of involvement in the attacks.

In November 2005 protests erupted in Ahwaz after ethnic Arabs accused authorities of discrimination.

Two other people have already been executed over attacks in Ahwaz in October of the same year that killed six people and wounded almost 100 more.

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دادگاه تجديدنظر استان خوزستان، محکوميت ۱۰ حبس تعزيری "اسد باوی"، از متهمان پرونده بمب*‏گذاري*‏های اخير اهواز را تأييد کرد و بر اين اساس وی برای تحمل کيفر، بازداشت شد.
سعيد نيسي، وکيل مدافع "باوی" در گفت*‏وگو با خبرنگار "ايلنا"، با اعلام اين مطلب، گفت: موکلم پيش از اين از سوی شعبه سوم دادگاه انقلاب اهواز به اتهام "حمل و جابجايی مواد منفجره" به اشد مجازات در اين اتهام يعنی ۱۰ سال حبس تعزيری محکوم شد که با اعتراض ما پرونده به دادگاه تجديدنظر ارجاع شد.
وی با بيان اينکه موکلش در اين مدت با قرار وثيقه آزاد بود، گفت: متأسفانه دادگاه تجديدنظر بدون اينکه جلسه*‏ای برای رسيدگی به اين پرونده تشکيل دهد و به ما اجازه دفاع دهد، محکوميت باوی را تأييد و قطعی کرد. حکم دادگاه تجديدنظر نيز تاکنون به بنده و موکلم ابلاغ نشده است.
نيسی افزود: با توجه به قطعی شدن محکوميت موکلم، مأموران به خانه "باوی" مراجعه و وی را به دايره اجرای احکام دادگاه انقلاب منتقل و سپس وی را به زندان منتقل کردند.

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ترور امام جماعت شلنگ آباد اهواز


محله فقيرنشين شلنگ آباد از کانونهای نا آرامی قومی دو سال پيش اهواز بوده است
هشام سيمری، امام جماعت مسجد فاطمة الزهرا در محله عرب نشين شلنگ آباد شهر اهواز يکشنبه شب گذشته به ضرب گلوله افراد مسلح ناشناس که در کنار خانه او به کمين نشسته بوده اند، کشته شده است.
غلامعلی حدادعادل، رئيس مجلس شورای اسلامی در جلسه علنی امروز مجلس ، آقای سيمری را از روحانيون "ولايتمدار و فعال" خوانده كه "توانست عده* ای را از دامان ضد انقلاب جدا كند و به آغوش نظام برگرداند و در نهايت به دست دشمنان اسلام به شهادت رسيد".

هشام سيمری علاوه بر پيشنمازی مسجد فاطمة الزهرا، مسئوليت مؤسسه خيريه و صندوق قرض الحسنه فاطمة الزهرا را نيز بر عهده داشته و به مخالفت با فعالان و گروههايی شهرت داشته که در زمينه مسائل قومی عربهای استان خوزستان فعاليت می کرده اند.

آقای سيمری خود نيز عرب بوده اما بومی استان خوزستان نبوده، بلکه از عراقيانی بوده که به ايران مهاجرت کرده و به معاودين شهرت دارند.

وی همچنين به عنوان يکی از روحانيان هوادار حکومت ايران شهرت داشته و آن گونه که منابعی در اهواز به بی بی سی گفته اند، مخالفان آقای سيمری اعتقاد دارند که وی در زمانی که استان خوزستان دچار نا آرامی قومی شده بود با نهادهای امنيتی و اطلاعاتی ايران همکاری داشته و اين در حالی است که محله شلنگ آباد که آقای سيمری امام جماعت يکی از مساجد مهم آن را در دست داشته، از کانونهای نا آرامی قومی پيش بوده است.

از هشام سيمری همچنين به عنوان روحانی ای ياد می شود که با اهل سنت مخالفت می ورزيده و حتی بر سر منبر آشکارا به خلفای راشدين که مورد احترام اهل سنتند حمله لفظی می کرده و به اين جهت مورد مخالفت اقليت سنی مذهب خوزستان قرار داشته است.

اهل سنت در استان خوزستان اقليت کوچکی را تشکيل می دهند اما گفته می شود که آقای سيمری عمدتاً بر سر احتمال گسترش مذهب وهابی در ميان جوانان عرب خوزستانی هشدار می داده و در اين زمينه فعال بوده است.

عربهای استان خوزستان از ديرباز به هواداری شديد از مذهب شيعه شهرت داشته اند و آن گونه که منابع محلی به بی بی سی گفته اند، آنچه تحت عنوان احتمال گسترش وهابيت در خوزستان مطرح می شود در واقع گسترش مذهب وهابی نيست بلکه استفاده از نشانه هايی است که بيشتر وهابيها به آن شهرت دارند.

به گفته اين منابع، اخيراً بسياری از جوانان خوزستانی چفيه (کوفيه) سرخ به سر يا دور گردن می بندند که اين نوع چفيه عمدتاً در عربستان سعودی مرسوم است و به عنوان نشانی از مذهب رسمی اين کشور، يعنی وهابيت شناخته می شود، در حالی که آن گونه که اين منابع می گويند، استفاده از اين نوع چفيه در ميان جوانان عرب خوزستانی بيشتر نشانه ای عربگرايانه است نه وهابی گرايانه.

با اين حال، مقامات ايرانی پيشتر پس از بازداشت افرادی در ارتباط با نا آرامی قومی و بمبگذاری در استان خوزستان گفته بودند که برخی از آنان پيرو مذهب وهابيت شده بودند.

در مورد عاملان ترور هشام سيمری در اهواز هنوز اظهارنظری از مسئولان محلی يا مقامات ايرانی گزارش نشده است.

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A Shia cleric known for his stance against Wahhabism, a strict version of Sunni Islam, has been killed in the south-western Iranian city of Ahwaz.
Reports said Hojjat ol-Eslam Hesham Seymari was shot dead in his home at night by two men claiming to know him.

Wahhabism is practised throughout the Arabian Peninsula, most notably by the ruling family of Saudi Arabia.

Ahwaz, home to a large community of ethnic minority Arabs, has seen much anti-government tension since 2005.

Iran has publicly hanged 10 men convicted of taking part in a series of deadly bombings in the city last year, which were blamed on Arab separatists allegedly backed by the UK.

The separatists have accused Iran's Persian majority of discrimination.

'Martyrdom'

Reporting Hojjat ol-Eslam Seymari's death on Tuesday, the hardline Iranian newspaper Keyhan described the cleric as a "skilful speaker who brought awareness to the youth about deviating movements, especially Wahhabism".

Hojjat ol-Eslam Seymari supervised 20 mosques and "stood against the Wahhabis' investment and strong onslaught in the city of Ahvaz", the paper added.

The representative of Iran's Supreme Leader in Khuzestan Province said the cleric had been martyred "at the hands of the mercenaries of Satan".

"Our enemies should know that his martyrdom will guide the nation, keep alive the values and principles of the exalted Muslim faith," Mohammad Ali Jazayeri said in a statement.

"Islam will remain alive and the enemies of Islam will die and receive a fitting punishment."

Wahhabism was founded by Mohammed Bin Abdul-Wahhab in 18th Century Arabia as an Islamic reform movement which felt that the local practice of Islam had lost its original purity.

The movement formed an alliance with the founders of the Saudi dynasty which continues today. A modern militant version of Wahhabism is espoused by Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda organisation.

Followers do not describe themselves as Wahhabis, preferring the term Tawhid to describe their movement. Some view Shia Islam as a heterodox sect.

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TEHRAN (AFP) - An Iranian Shiite cleric known for his anti-Wahhabi activities has been assassinated in the restive city of Ahvas, in an area that is home to a substantial Arab community, a press report said Tuesday.

"Hojjatoleslam Hesham Seimori, the combatant cleric and Shiite scholar, was shot dead by two men who turned up at his house on motorbikes around 10 at night claiming to know him," the hardline Kayhan newspaper said.

Kayhan said Seimori was a "skillful speaker who brought awareness to the youth about deviating movements especially Wahhabism", a branch of conservative Sunni Islam practised in the Arabian peninsula.

The cleric was tasked with supervising 20 mosques and "stood against the Wahhabis' investment and strong onslaught in the city of Ahvaz," it said.

Ahvaz is the capital of the oil-rich Khuzestan province, which lies near the Iraqi border and is home to a Sunni Arab minority -- about three percent of the 70-million population -- in Shiite majority Iran.

Iran has hanged 10 men for carrying out 2006 deadly bomb attacks in Ahvaz, which were blamed on Arab separatists backed by Britain, whose troops are stationed across the border in Iraq. Britain denies the allegation.

Iran frequently accuses Britain and the United States of inciting unrest and backing rebels in its border provinces inhabited by ethnic and religious minorities.